No Country for Old Men

Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

2007 / 122min / DCP

The devil rides out in 1980s West Texas in the Coens’ marvelously sustained adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel of the same name, with Javier Bardem in the role of remorseless, curiously coiffured hitman Anton Chigurh (certainly one of the most unforgettable heavies in recent-ish American pictures), Josh Brolin as the poor schlep who’s stumbled across two million bucks that Chigurh’s on the trail of, and Tommy Lee Jones as the aging Terrell County Sheriff trying to make sense of a mounting body count in his jurisdiction. Terse, hard-bitten, utterly absorbing in its process-oriented straightforwardness and, in the final measure, suffused with an implacable sorrow.

Distributor: Paramount